Identification-tag.



I No. 825,129. PATENTED JULY 3, 1906.

J. H. JOHNSON.

IDENTIFICATION 'I'AG. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 8. 19'05.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IDENTIFICATION-TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 3, 1906.

Application filed November 8,1905. Serial No. 286,429.

To all who/11 it may concern.-

Be it known that I, J ACOB HENRY JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Identification-Tags, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in identificationtags, and more particularly to that class of tags adapted to be attached to satchels and the like valises.

The primary object of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive tag to which the name and address of the owner of the tag may be attached.

I have devised novel means in connection with the tag for covering and rendering the name and address invisible except when it is desired to observe the same. I am aware that tags are used wherein the name and address are detachably secured to the tag and hidden from view; but in this class of tags it was necessary in order to observe the name and address to remove the strap by which the tag was fastened to a satchel or valise. By my improved construction it will be only necessary to move a portion of the tag irrespective of the strap in order to observe the name and address, said name and address be ing otherwise hidden from view.

With the above and other objects in view, which will more readily appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, the same consists in the novel construction, coml bination, and arrangement of parts, to be hereinafter more fully described and then claimed.

Referring to the drawings accompanying this application, like numerals of reference designate corresponding parts throughout the several views, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved tag. Fig. 2 is a similar view illustrating the name and address of a person exposed. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a movable plate used in connection with the tag. Fig. 4 is a similar view of a sight-plate Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a piece of paper or plate containing the address of the owner of the tag. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of the body of the tag. Fig. 7 1s a vertical sectional view taken on the line :10 x of Fig. 6.

To put my invention into practice I em- I ploy a tag consisting of four piecesa body portion 1, an address-plate 2, a sight-plate 3, and a movable plate 4. The body portion of the tag is preferably constructed of metal, which may be nickel-plated or oxidized to present a neat appearance. The body portion 1 is substantially rectangular in plan, but has its upper edge provided with an enlargement 5, which is slotted, as at 6, to permit of a strap (not shown) being affixed to the tag in order that the tag may be attached to a valise. The side edges of the body portion 1 are flanged, as at 7 7, while the bottom edge of the body portion is cut away or sheared, as at 8, and bent upwardly to form a tongue 9, the object of which will presently appear.

Adapted to coincide with the body portion 1 of the tag and be retained upon the body portion by the flanges 7 7 and the tongue 9 is the sheet of paper 2, containing the address of the person who owns the tagfor instance, John Doe, 514 Bldg, Pittsburg, Pa. In lieu of the sheet of paper a thin metallic plate or sheet may be used. Adapted to fit upon the sheet of paper within the body portion 1 is the sightplate 3, which is substantially rectangular in plan, said sight-plate being provided with a slot 10, through 'which the name John Doe is observed, a slot 11, which exposes the number and the building, and the slot 12, which permits of the city and State being observed. The sight plate 3 upon its one edge is slotted, as at 14 to limit the movement of the movable plate 4, which is mounted upon the sight-plate within the body portionl. The movable plate is pro.- vided with a depending lug 14 on one edge to engage in the slot 14 of the plate 3, also with two slots 15 and 16, and by referring to Figs. 1 to 3, inclusive, it will be observed that this plate is shorter than the plates used in connection with the tag. The normal position of the movable plate 4 is illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings, where it is seen that the body portion of the movable plate 4 closes the slots 10, 11, and 12 of the sightplate 3. Should it be desired to observe the address of the person owning the tag, and consequently the valise to which the tag is attached, it is only necessary to elevate the movable plate4 to the position shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings, at which time the persons name, together with the number and the building, may be observed through the slots 15 and 16 of the plate 4, while the city and IIO the slot 6 of the body portion 1 it will be impossible for the plates to become detached from the body portion of the tag. The lug v carried by the edge of the movable plate 4 is adapted to limit the upward movement of the movable plate 4 and position it, whereby,the name and address carried by the piece of paper or plate 2 of the tag can be readily observed.

It is obvious that the various plates of my improved tag can be readily made of celluloid or the like material, and such changes in the construction of the article as are permissible by the appended claims may be resorted to without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a tag, the combination with a body portion having flanged sides, a tongue carried by the lower edge of said body portion, said body portion having a slot formed therein, to which a strap may be attached, of an address-plate carried by said body portion, a

sight-plate mounted upon said address-plate, I

a movable plate mounted upon said sightplate, said sight-plate and movable plate being each provided with a slot, said slots being adapted to be brought into registry to expose a portion of said address-plate through said sight-plate, and means to limit themovement of said movable plate upon said sight-plate, substantially as described.

2. A tag of the class described embodying a body portion having a slot formed therein, an addressplate carried by said body ortion, a sight-plate formed with a plurality of openings and mounted upon said addressplate, a movable plate formed with a plurality of openings and mounted upon said sightplate, means to retain said plates together, the openings in the sight-plate and the openings in the movable plate being adapted to register at one position of the latter so as to expose a portion of said address-plate through said sight-plate, and means to limit the movement of said movable plate, substantially as described.

3. A tag of the class described embodying a body portion, three plates mounted upon said body portion, two of said plates being.

provided with openings and one of the latter plates being movable so as to bring said openings into registry to expose a portion of one of said plates through the other two plates, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JACOB HENRY JOHNSON.

l/Vitnesses:

E. E. POTTER, H. C. EVERT. W T. 

